When new games studio Moonshot Games set up shop it garnered the attention of the gaming press because three of the four-man team were ex-Bungie staff. The team formed in late 2009, and since then have been working on their first game which has been revealed this week.

Sticking close to the roots of what Bungie are best known for, Moonshot’s first game is called Fallen Frontier and it’s a shooter. More specifically it’s a 2D scrolling shooter (run and gun) set in a gritty sci-fi universe.

Moonshot is promising a big game with “vast interconnected worlds” and a playable character capable of doing a lot more than running and jumping around. There’s a grappling hook, multiple firearms to get to grips with, grenades, and special abilities to take advantage of. All this happening in quite a distinctive environment that certainly has a unique look and atmosphere about it.

As for the back story to the game, Moonshot explain:

Our story follows a jaded lawman from Earth, arriving at the frontier worlds of Alpha Centauri on a mission of vengeance. Events unfold as an engaging film noir style mystery, and the hero quickly comes to realize that in this brave new world, nothing is quite as it seems.

Gameplay will take the form of a single-player campaign and multiplayer is catered for with co-op utilizing an intelligent split-screening if players get too far away from each other (as demonstrated in the video above).

Fallen Frontier will be playable at PAX East which runs March 11-13 in Boston. Moonshot will be in booth 759 and look to be using it as an opportunity to get some feedback on the game before they put the finishing touches to it for release. What we don’t know yet is when the game will release and on what formats, but we suspect a downloadable game on the major consoles and through Steam.

As has already started being pointed out on the Moonshot website. The game brings back memories of the 1996 title Abuse which can be seen in action below: